https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 03 Jun 2026 08:17:33 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/3mo-bedtime#post-2513869 Sat, 02 Apr 2016 22:29:48 +0000 travellingbee 2513869@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For L, just based on the way his schedule naturally falls, he has settled on about 8pm. Sometimes a little earlier and sometimes a little later. But between 730 and 830 for sure. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/3mo-bedtime#post-2513826 Sat, 02 Apr 2016 21:00:32 +0000 DesertDreams88 2513826@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Pickle: @gingerbebe: @hilsy85: @petitenoisette: @oliviaoblivia: thanks for the input! I'm going to use my last week of maternity leave (next week) to try to work towards these wake / sleep times. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/3mo-bedtime#post-2513291 Fri, 01 Apr 2016 19:35:48 +0000 oliviaoblivia 2513291@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My third is a week older than your LO and her bedtime is just starting to be regularly early. She was staying up until 10/11 until maybe a week and a half ago. She's up at eight and in bed around 7/7:30. Sometimes she wakes to nurse around 5:30 but more often than not she sleeps through and then is only awake for 45 before her first nap.</p> <p>My second had an early bedtime from the get go but my first took a while to go to bed early.</p> <p>With each of them I let their sleep cues dictate bedtime. You can only encourage a baby to sleep so much. If they aren't tired there's no falling asleep. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/3mo-bedtime#post-2513288 Fri, 01 Apr 2016 19:33:06 +0000 petitenoisette 2513288@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>- When did your LO's bedtime start to regulate? I don't remember! I didn't go back to work til she was 6 months and even then her bedtime has varied a lot depending on naps that day.<br /> - Do you feel that your LO's bedtime regulated due to your efforts, or their natural development? Prob both. Not really our efforts but just because of the schedule we have to adhere to. </p> <p>- What would be a good "bedtime" to shoot for? (As in, nurse, put down, he stays down) - Do you think that after about a week of these early wake-ups, he will start naturally going to bed earlier?<br /> For an early wake up like that I would probably shoot for a 6:30 bedtime but obviously it is going to take a while to get there (and maybe he needs to be a bit older). I have to get my daughter up around 6 and I think we have finally settled on 6:30 as her ideal bedtime. This means that I almost always have to wake her up rather than her getting up naturally which I kind of need so that I can get ready! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/3mo-bedtime#post-2513281 Fri, 01 Apr 2016 19:30:18 +0000 hilsy85 2513281@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>- What would be a good "bedtime" to shoot for? (As in, nurse, put down, he stays down)</p> <p>I am a big believer in early bedtimes--my LOs had a 6:30 bedtime for a long long time. </p> <p>- When did your LO's bedtime start to regulate? Probably around 8 weeks? It started at 7:30, and gradually moved back to 6:30. </p> <p>- Do you feel that your LO's bedtime regulated due to your efforts, or their natural development?</p> <p>I think that it is mainly due to the fact that she naturally wakes up for the day around 6:30/7, which kind of sets her schedule for the rest of the day. Her last nap is from 3:30-4/4:30, so she can't last much beyond 6:30.</p> <p>- Do you think that after about a week of these early wake-ups, he will start naturally going to bed earlier? He currently "goes to bed" 9:30ish-6:30ish, with 2 short night feeds around 1 and 4 OR 1 long night feed around 3.</p> <p>I don't know...is it possible he will just treat that wakeup as a MOTN wakeup and go right back to sleep once you get him in the car? I have no experience with this so I don't know! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/3mo-bedtime#post-2513268 Fri, 01 Apr 2016 19:04:57 +0000 gingerbebe 2513268@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>That's tough with the early mornings. I guess at that age, I would see the 5:30am feeding as a MOTN feeding and that his day actually doesn't start until the next feeding, so like 8:30am? </p> <p>I generally believe in a 12 hour day, so if I count his day as having started at 8:30am, then an 8:30pm would be an appropriate bedtime. That would probably work really well for you if he's sleeping 9:30pm-6:30am, because then it would be more like 8:30pm-5:30am. He should be on his way to dropping down to 1 MOTN feed, so if you feed him once at 1am, that should get him through the night. Or, if you want to work on cutting that feeding, you can put him down at 8pm after a nice big feeding, then give him a dreamfeed at around 10:30pm or 11pm (i.e. your bedtime) and hopefully that top off will get him to the morning.</p> <p>The bigger issue may be later on when the baby's a little older. Once they are STTN, I would probably want them to get at least 10 hours of unbroken sleep, so the bedtime would have to move to 7-730pm.</p> <p>My son had issues (colic, reflux), so his bedtime didn't really regulate until 12 weeks, but WE mentally considered his bedtime to be 7:30pm (for purposes of keeping track of feedings and eat/play/sleep cycles). We started our day at 730am and just stuck to a 3 hour feeding schedule just so that we had some kind of game plan or template to work from because he basically just screamed and never slept for the first 3 months. </p> <p>But once we got his colic and reflux meds figured out, he fell into a rhythm pretty quickly. We put him down to bed at 730pm, he got a dreamfeed around 10pm, and he would go until 730am. We worked on dropping the dreamfeed by moving it earlier and earlier in 30 minute increments, and once he was sleeping through until 730am with a 9pm dreamfeed, we dropped it completely (around 4.5 months?) and by 5 months we had an 11-12 hour a night sleeper, minus regressions.</p> <p>DS is almost 19 months and he still has a 730pm bedtime. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/3mo-bedtime#post-2513257 Fri, 01 Apr 2016 18:55:24 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 2513257@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We started DD on a bedtime routine at 6 weeks. Initially it was at 9, then we quickly moved it up to 8, and then 7:30 by 3 months old. It takes about an hour to get her down. That includes bath time though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/3mo-bedtime#post-2513238 Fri, 01 Apr 2016 18:25:42 +0000 DesertDreams88 2513238@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>In a week, LO will be 10.5wks (though the size of a big 3mo old) and I have to wake him up at 5:15 / 5:30 every day to feed him and change him to leave for daycare around 6/6:10.</p> <p>- What would be a good "bedtime" to shoot for? (As in, nurse, put down, he stays down)<br /> - When did your LO's bedtime start to regulate?<br /> - Do you feel that your LO's bedtime regulated due to your efforts, or their natural development?<br /> - Do you think that after about a week of these early wake-ups, he will start naturally going to bed earlier? He currently "goes to bed" 9:30ish-6:30ish, with 2 short night feeds around 1 and 4 OR 1 long night feed around 3. </p>